Juande Ramos was on the verge of completing his managerial move to Tottenham last night after resigning as coach of Sevilla. Ramos handed over the relevant paperwork to the Primera Liga club and will succeed Martin Jol, sacked on Thursday night. He hopes to take charge of Tottenham in time for the Carling Cup tie at home to Blackpool on Wednesday.

Sevilla's fitness trainer, Marcos Alvarez, tendered his resignation at the same time. A statement on the club's website read: "Juande Ramos appeared on the third floor of the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán [stadium] to present a document in which he asked for his contract to be rescinded at 22.35pm [local time]. Ramos was accompanied by Marcos Alvarez, who presented the same document to the general director of the club, José María Cruz, in the presence of Ramón Rodríguez Monchi, the club's sporting director.

"The now ex-Sevilla coach declined the possibility of giving a press conference at the club's training facilities and has chosen his website as a means of saying goodbye to Sevilla FC."

On that website Ramos later said: "After almost 20 years of my career it would be unforgivable not to accept a project that offers the chance for a humble man who is now over 50 to grow enormously. This is a professional challenge that represents the culmination of lots of effort and sacrifice by me and those around me . . . for my family and career it is impossible not to leave for London."

Ramos met the club's president, José María del Nido, and Monchi at the club's training ground yesterday morning and told them face to face of his desire to leave. Tottenham can be satisfied that they have now got their man after first courting him in August. Del Nido and Monchi, who had met representatives of Tottenham in London on Thursday night, have endeavoured to come to a face-saving negotiated settlement with Ramos and a satisfactory compensation package. Ramos's representatives, meanwhile, had studied the legal ramifications of him resigning and he was prepared to force his departure, even if that leads to a legal battle.

Tottenham's board took the decision to sack Jol before the Uefa Cup defeat by Getafe on Thursday night and the Dutchman was told when called into the office of the chairman, Daniel Levy, after the game. Spurs, however, believe that Jol's dismissal was leaked before the match and intend to hold an internal investigation. Jol is said to have discovered his fate by text message, sent by a friend to one of the substitutes during the tie.

Jol has settled on his pay-off - the sum is almost £4m, the value on the remaining two years of his contract - and he was at the club's training ground for the final time yesterday. He said his farewells to the first-team squad, together with Chris Hughton, the assistant coach, who departed after an association with the club that dated to 1977. Hans Segers, the goalkeeping coach, has also been sacked.

Jol's Spurs side had made the worst start to a league season since the war years and his reluctance to talk a good game at boardroom level was a contributing factor to his departure.

Clive Allen, the development coach, and Alex Inglethorpe, the under-18 coach, will take charge for tomorrow's home match against Blackburn. Inglethorpe, who was brought to the club by the sporting director, Damien Comolli, is set for a more senior role, alongside Gus Poyet, the Leeds assistant manager, who played at White Hart Lane from 2001 to 2004. Although Poyet said he did not "know if something has gone on between the clubs", Leeds have asked him to stay away from Elland Road for today's game against Millwall.